Tue
Apr 12 2022
02:48 pm
By: Mark Harmon
This NY Times story deserves more attention. An extremist first-term Republican Congressman gets all upset about a 23-year-old court opinion about school prayer at a commencement ceremony.
Suddenly all the extremists in the House GOP turn against a routine bill to name a federal courthouse after a pioneering African American judge.
Congressman Tim Burchett, of course, joined the lemming-like rush to kill the legislation. We really need a better congressman.
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